Cigarette extinguisher



Filed Jan. 4, 19s2 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 A 405mm x. smwm as 2/ J1me 1933- J. x. SNADbEN CIGARETTE EXTINGUISHER Filed Jan. 4, 1952 2 sheets -sheet 2 l JOSEPH x. srmwm Patented June 6, 1933 PATENT OFFICE JOBEPE x. BNADDEN, OF COLLINBVILLE, ILLINOIS CIGARETTE EXTINGUISHEB.

Application. filed January 4, 1982. Sexello. 584,624.

This invention relates to improvements in a cigarette extinguisher, and has among its objects, the production of such a device, which will be neat and attractive in appearance, clean and sanitary, simple and sturdy in construction, durable, and efficient and satisfactory for use wherever found applicable.

10 One of the objects of my invention is to rette-receiving drum arranged within a housing, so that either lighted or unlighted cigarettes may be deposited in said drum when it is desired to discard the cigarettes, and from whence they will be discharged into the base of the housing upon movement of said drum.

Another object of my invention is to provide a stub-receiving drum of the kind described, so arranged within the housing that the lighted cigarettes will be substantially extinguished by shutting ofi the air therefrom, and wherein the undesirable smoke and odors will not be sent into the room.

A further object of my invention is to provide a cigarette extinguisher of the kind described, which shall consist of a housing with a drum rotatable therein, and with a removable receptacle below the drum, so that after a stub had been deposited on the drum and the latter actuated, the stub will be carried to such a position that it will fall into said receptacle.

Still further objects of my invention are the production of a device of the kind described, in which lighted cigarettes may be discarded, so as to prevent them from burning, scorching or otherwise coming into con tact with and marring the furniture or fixtures, and in which the stub-receiving drum will have a plurality of discard depositaries therein so that as one cigarette is moved to its discharge position and drops into the removable receptacle, a fresh depositary is presented into which a subsequent cigarette may be dropped.

Many other objects and advantages of the construction herein shown and described 50 willbe obvious to those skilled in the art to provide an extinguisher of the kind de-, scribed, which shall have a movable cigawhich this invention appertains, from the disclosures herein given.

To this end, my invention consists in the novel arrangement, construction and combination of parts herein shown and described,

and the uses mentioned, and more larly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, wherein like reference characters indicate like or corresponding parts throughout the views,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention;

Figure 2 is a vertical cross-sectional view therethrough, taken in one plane;

Figure 3 is a similar cross-sectional view of the same, taken in a plane at right angles to that of Fig. 2;

Figure 4 is a perspective detail of the drum; c

Figure 5 is a vertical cross-sectional view of a modified form of device; and

Figure 6 is a top plan view of the same, with parts broken away.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, wherein I have illustrated the preferred embodiments of myinvention, there is shown a cigarette extinguisher adapted to be placed on a table, desk or otherdesirable support, and into which the discarded cigarettes may be deposited, either lighted or extinguished.

In the form shown in Figs. 1 to 4, the device consists of a suitable housing structure 7 which is hollow, and is provided with an upper portion to receive the co-operating drum 12, the upper portion being preferably cylindrical as shown, and is closed at either end by the end walls 8 and 9. The base of the housing is formed into a hollow chamber or receptacle to receive the removable tray or drawer 11 into which the discarded stubs,- etc., accumulate.

The drum 12 is positioned within the upper, cylindrical portion of the housing 7 and is supported in place bythe axle 13 bearing on the end walls 8 and 9, so that the drum may be rotatably actuated within the housing, and for this purpose the drum is provided with a knob 15 extending beyond the end wall of the housing.

particu- The drum is preferably hollow, as shown, and is provided with a plurality of circumferentially spaced, inwardly extendlng grooves or channels 14, referabl of sulficiently deep size to entire y concea the cigarette therein and of a length to accommodate the cigarette. It will be noted that the intervening eripheral portions of the drum, between t e grooves, will be relatively close to the interior surface of the cylindrlcalfiportlon of the housing into which the drum ts, and whereby when a cigarette is Within a groove and the drum is rotated slightly, the air is practically excluded from the cigarette and the latter will become extinguished.

The housing is provided with a pair of openings 18 and 16 therethrough, the former being the inlet opening (adjacent the top of the housing) and through which the cigarette may be passed to drop or become lodged within one of the several grooves 14 of the drum, the other elongated openin 16 being termed the discharge opening lea ing from the cylindrical portion of the housing to the receptacle 11 immediately therebelow; As these openings are one above the other, a cigarette dropped into a roove 14 through theinlet opening, will be ropped b the latter into the drawer as soon as t e drum groove containing the stub is superimposed over the opening 16. 7

Suitable cigarette supports 17 are placed on top of the portion 10 of the housing, on which the smoker may rest his cigarette'at intervals during the smoking thereof, and as soon as he wishes to discard the same, he merely drops itthrough the uppermost slot or opening 18.

It is not necessary, nor even most desirable, that the knob 15 be actuated to deposit the discarded stub into the drawer immediately upon placing the cigarette through the slot 18, but upon the other hand, it is preferable that the dlscarded stub, especially when lighted, remain in the drum pocket until the next the cylindrical portion 7 of the housing is arranged with the longitudinal axis vertically, and the inlet and discharge openings 19 and 21 are preferably out of vertical alinement.

The drum is provided with the vertically extending grooves or tubes 20, spaced apart about the circumference of the same, so that upon rotation of the drum, by means of the knob, the discarded cigarettes within the drum will be successively brought into registry with the opening 21 and fall into the drawer 11 therebelow.

Having thus described my invention, it is obvious that various immaterial modifications may be made in the same without departing from the spirit of myinvention; hence I do not wish to he understood as limiting myself to the exact form, arrangement, construction, and. combination of parts herein shown and described, or uses mentioned, except as limited by the state of the art to which this invention appertains, and the claim hereunto appended. v

What Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: V V

A cigarette extinguishercomprisng a housing having an inlet 0 enin and a discharge opening one above t 9 0t er and through which a cigarette-"may pass; a stub receptacleremovable within said housing below said lower opening and adapted to receive the extinguished cigarettes; and ahollow rotatable drum having its peripheral enclosing Wall within. said housingand, having elongated grooves in said peripheral wall to alternately communicate with said inlet and discharge openings, whereby a cigarettedeposited into one of said grooves on the drum through the inlet opening of the housing will be discharged through, the discharge opening into said receptacle.

In-testimony whereof he has aflixed hissignature.

" JOSEPH SNADDEN,

pocket is used, although the drum may be given suflicient movement to bring the next successive pocket into re 'stry with the inlet slot 18. Thus, the stub as time to become .extinguished before beingdischarged into the drawer.

The housing and drum are preferably constructed of a substantially non-inflammable material, such as metal, and it is therefore immaterial whether the cigarette is immediately conveyed to the drawer or not, and as previously mentioned, the stub may be permitted to remain in the slot or groove 14 for an extended period, after the drum has been actuated sufliciently to out 01f the air from the stub.

The modification shown in Figs. 5 and 6, are somewhat similar to the form just described, except that the cigarettes are deposited vertically in the device. To this end, 

